Siegfried Arno

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Sig Arno, around 1929
Ossi Oswalda and Siegfried Arno advertise the magazine Das Leben (1926)

Siegfried "Sig" Arno (actually Siegfried Aron , from 1940 also Sig Arno ; * December 27, 1895 in Hamburg , † August 17, 1975 in Woodland Hills , California ) was a German actor , comedian , singer and dancer .

Live and act

Siegfried Arno (left) in 1931 with Kurt Gerron

Arno attended the Talmud Thora secondary school in Hamburg and then trained as a fashion illustrator at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts . He was a member of the Hamburger Theaterverein and had his first employment at the city ​​theater in Harburg and at the opera. After the First World War he worked in Hamburg, Prague and from 1921 in Berlin. In the same year he made his film debut in The Red Cat . Since the mid-1920s, Arno was constantly involved in film, mainly in comedies. Initially his younger brother Bruno Arno stood by his side.

The tall and lanky Arno with a pronounced nose formed a comedian duo with the corpulent Kurt Gerron several times . In Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney and Die Büchse der Pandora , Arno played minor supporting roles as a detective and theater manager.

With the start of the sound film, Arno made the leap to star in a series of grotesque comedies in the early 1930s: u. a. The one from the fairground , Moritz makes his fortune , The stork is on strike , A boiled-up boy , No celebration without Meyer , Around a nose and the most beautiful man in the state . At the time, Arno was known as the “German Chaplin”.

In 1933 he emigrated from Nazi Germany and worked at cabarets and theaters in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal. In 1939 he finally traveled to the USA, where he found employment as a supporting actor, e.g. B. in Wilhelm Dieterle's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) and comedies such as The Great Dictator (1940), In Hell The Devil Is Losing (1941) and Abbott and Costello Among Cannibals (1942). Probably his best-known Hollywood role was Toto , the bizarre and talkative admirer of Mary Astor in Preston Sturges ' screwball comedy Breathless to Florida (1942). In addition, he hired himself as a draftsman and portrait painter and worked on Broadway, in 1954 at the Deutsches Theater New York. In 1956 Arno was brought to Vienna by Marcel Prawy and played there at the Vienna Volksoper in the musical Wonderful Town by Leonard Bernstein alongside Bruce Low and Olive Moorefield . Guest appearances took him abroad again, including to the FRG, where he received the gold film tape in 1966 for many years of outstanding work in German film.

Arno was married to the actress Lia Dahms from 1922 to 1932, to Barbara Kiranoff from 1934 to 1953, and from 1953 to the Austrian actress Kitty Mattern . His son Peter (born 1926) from his first marriage became a costume and set designer.

Awards in Germany

  • 1966 German Film Award: Filmband in Gold for many years of outstanding work in German film

Filmography

  • 1931: Checkmate
  • 1931: The big attraction
  • 1931: The Mute from Portici (short film)
  • 1931: The Red Cat's Secret
  • 1931: Cabaret program No. 1 (short film)
  • 1931: Cabaret program No. 2 (short film)
  • 1931: By a nose's length
  • 1931: The stork goes on strike. Siegfried the Sailor
  • 1931: Shooting festival in Schilda
  • 1931: a boiled boy
  • 1931: No celebration without Meyer
  • 1931: The night without a break
  • 1931: The most handsome man in the state
  • 1934: Gado Bravo
  • 1936: De roem van't regiment (director)
  • 1939: Bridal Suite
  • 1939: The Star Maker
  • 1939: The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame )
  • 1940: The Mummy's Hand
  • 1940: Diamond Frontier
  • 1940: A Little Bit of Heaven
  • 1940: Dark Streets of Cairo
  • 1940: The Great Dictator ( The Great Dictator )
  • 1941: This Thing Called Love
  • 1941: Passport to Heaven
  • 1941: Raiders of the Desert
  • 1941: The Gambling Daughters
  • 1941: It Started with Eve ( It Started with Eve )
  • 1941: Two Latins From Manhattan
  • 1941: The Unfinished ( New Wine )
  • 1941: The Chocolate Soldier
  • 1941: The devil breaks loose in hell! ( Hellzapoppin ' )
  • 1942: Two Yanks in Trinidad
  • 1942: Juke Box Jenny
  • 1942: I Married an Angel
  • 1942: Abbott and Costello among cannibals ( Pardon My Sarong )
  • 1942: Six Fates ( Tales of Manhattan )
  • 1942: Breathless to Florida ( The Palm Beach Story )
  • 1942: The Devil with Hitler
  • 1943: The Crystal Ball
  • 1943: Let's Have Fun
  • 1943: You Barry Was a Lady
  • 1943: Taxi, Mister
  • 1943: Passport to Suez
  • 1943: Larceny with Music
  • 1943: The Stubenfee ( His Butler's Sister )
  • 1943: Thousands Cheer
  • 1944: General Admission in bed ( Standing Room Only )
  • 1944: Up in Arms
  • 1944: Showboat Serenade
  • 1944: And the Angels Sing
  • 1944: Song of the Open Road
  • 1945: I Was a Criminal
  • 1945: Bring on the Girls
  • 1945: Polonaise ( A Song to Remember )
  • 1945: Roughely Speaking
  • 1946: One More Tomorrow
  • 1949: Holyday in Havana
  • 1949: The Great Lover
  • 1950: Nancy Goes to Rio
  • 1950: Venus falls in love ( Duchess of Idaho )
  • 1950: The Fisherman of Louisiana ( The Toast of New Orleans! )
  • 1951: On Moonlight Bay
  • 1952: The Wedding (TV series Rebound )
  • 1952: Courier to Trieste ( Diplomatic Courier )
  • 1952–1954: My Friend Irma (TV series)
  • 1953: Fast Company
  • 1953: The Great Diamond Robbery
  • 1955: December Bridge (TV series)
  • 1956: Rosalinda (TV)
  • 1962: Back again: Siegfried Arno (TV show)

literature

  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 76 ff., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8
  • Klaus Gille: Arno, Siegfried . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 26-27 .

Web links

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